Oracle gives OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation -- should we care?

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Jun 2, 2011 1:16 AM EDT
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The free, open-source office suite OpenOffice has been dying by inches for quite some time. Now that Oracle has "given" the project -- sans support, it would seem -- to the Apache Foundation, I'd say it's time to close the lid on the box and drop it in the ground. It's not like Oracle didn't kill it first.

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